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Abstract: The article summarizes the results and prospects designated by the scientific publication of Platonov’s “Works” and describes the political, historical, and literary contexts of the writer’s reconstruction period works, presented in vol. 4. The work on the comments revealed the topical issue of Platonov’s attitude to writers’ unions. His avoidance of personal involvement in any organization is a known fact. Nevertheless, the need for self-realization as a writer and the financial difficulties associated with it led to his entrance into several literary associations. The 1930s became a turning point in Platonov’s creative destiny, which is striking when commenting on his works. His lexicon exposes new semantic overtones of commonly used words and reflects the writer’s dialogue with the authorities, which are embodied, among other things, by writers’ associations, revealing the institutional (social) semantics of everyday objects and phenomena.